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The Songs of Orpheus (Paperback)
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The Songs of Orpheus (Paperback)
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Loot Price R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
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Fragments of the story which I am about to tell lie scattered far
and wide across this world. Like bits of paper strewn upon the wind
they have been carried across the Old World land mass from Greece
to India and back again. They have been carried by the feet of men,
by boat, by camel, by elephant, by horse. Fragments of this story
may be read in the Catacombs of Rome, in the history of Egypt, in
the cuneiform tablets of Asia Minor. They may be read in the rock
carvings of Asia Minor and of India and in the art work of Egypt
and of Greece. In a sense it is a tale of two countries, India and
Greece, and great heaps of fragments lie scattered through the
epics of those lands. It is a tale of the long ago. The people of
the old Stonehenge had come and gone but Troy was yet to rise and
fall. Even the geography of Europe and of Asia were not then what
they are now. A great volcanic mountain still stood on an island
north of Crete and Vakshu, the Crooked River, still flowed into the
Caspian Sea.
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